After 100 Billion Streams, Spotify Finally Asks What You Actually Want to Hear

Spotify has updated its decade-old Discover Weekly playlist to finally let Premium users nudge the algorithm toward genres they actually want to hear.

New genre filters now appear at the top of the playlist, giving users the illusion of control over what ends up in their Monday music dump.

The company says this long-overdue update will help users explore new sounds, especially if they’re brave enough to veer from nostalgic 80s rock into the treacherous territory of K-pop.

Since launching in 2015, Discover Weekly has amassed over 100 billion streams, with a whopping 77% of them going to artists nobody’s heard of—yet.

To use the new feature, Premium subscribers must venture into the “Made for You” hub, locate Discover Weekly, and pray they’ve updated their app.

This follows Spotify’s recent trend of pretending to hand over more control, including showing what songs the AI is planning to ruin your queue with and offering a temporary 30-day “snooze” button for annoying tracks.

Because nothing says “cutting-edge tech” like finally letting you tell your robot DJ to stop recommending the same song for the fifth week in a row.